An important work, drawn up from official sources, entitled "The Prussian Monarchy represented in its topographical, statistical and economical State, by Dr. Leopold Krug," is now in course of publication, in two vols. 8vo.

The first volume of a new German translation of Rabelais's Works, by Gottlob Regis, has recently made its appearance at Leipzig. It includes the text of the five books of his famous romance of " Gargantua and Pantagruel." Another volume will contain an Introduction and Notes by the translator, with the various readings of different editions, some of which have only very recently been discovered. The book is handsomely printed in large 8vo., and a good portrait of Rabelais is prefixed.

A new portrait of Goethe has just been published by Schwerdgeburth, which, in point of characteristic resemblance, is said to be superior to any that have yet appeared of that extraordinary man.

A life of the German novelist, Auguste Lafontaine, from the pen of his friend, Professor Gruber (the author of the Life of Wieland), has recently appeared, and report speaks very favorably of its execution.

In the Catalogue of the last Leipzig fair, the following translations of English books are announced as in the press :-Brodie on the Uretha; Clement's Observations in Surgery and Pathology; Lindley's Introduction to Botany; and Stapleton's Life of Canning. Translations are announced as already published of-Babbage on Manufactures; Brewster's Letters on Natural Magic, with Notes by Wolff; Brown's Miscellaneous Botanical Works, Vol. V. Part I.; Christison's Medical Poisons; Cobbett's Protestant Reformation; Sir A. Cooper on Hernia, &c.; Crofton Croker's P. Mahoney; Sir H. Davy's Consolation in Travel; Hope on Diseases of the Heart; Lander's Voyages to the Niger; Lawrence's Lectures; Loudon's Encyclopedia of Agriculture; Lyell's Geology; Mackintosh's History of Englund; Napier's History of the Peninsular War; Russell's Palestine; Snodgrass's Birman War, 2nd edit. Besides these there are many reprints and translations of Byron, Scott, Moore, Edgeworth, Bulwer, Sheridan, &c. &c.

ITALY.

THE Milan Editors of the Classici Italiani are publishing, as a sequel to that series, a collection of the best Italian Writers of the Eighteenth Century, which will consist of 136 volumes, 8vo. The eighteenth century was to Italy an age of revival of philosophical studies and critical investigation. The names of Giannone, Muratori, Maffei, Genovesi, Filangieri, Beccaria, &c., bear sufficient evidence of this. We are, however, surprised not to find in the list of writers of which the collection is to consist, those of Vico, Pietro Verri, and Appiano Buonafede. The Storia d' Ogni Filosofia of the last mentioned writer, which has been in part translated into German by Heydenreich, is, notwithstanding its imperfections, the most complete work Italy possesses on the subject. We hear that Fontana of Milan is preparing a new edition of it.

Pistolesi's splendid work, Il Vaticano descritto, with etchings by Guerra, which is being published at Rome in folio, has reached its Thirtieth Number. It will contain a complete description of the whole Vatican, ancient and modern, with its multifarious structures, the great Church, the Pontifical Palace,

the Museum, the Library, Raphael's Logge, the Sistine and Paoline chapels, the Sacristia, the Mosaic works, &c.

The Frescoes of the Campo Santo of Pisa, engraved by Lasinio, are publishing at Florence by Molini. Rosini's former publication of the same has become very scarce.

Necrology.-Rafael Morghen, the celebrated engraver, died at Florence on the 8th of April, aged 73. Reared up from his infancy among the arts-for both his father and his uncle followed engraving and early initiated him into its technical practice,-Rafael enjoyed advantages that do not always second the impulses of youthful genius. He afterwards studied under the eminent Volpato, whose daughter he married in 1781. His works are by far too numerous to be specified here. We shall therefore content ourselves with naming the Madonna della Seggiola, and the Transfiguration, after Raphael, and the Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci, chefs-d'œuvre of the art, and in every respect worthy of the illustrious originator.

Professor Sebastian Ciampi has published at Florence a hitherto unknown translation of the Moral Essays of Albertano Giudice of Brescia, by the notary Sofredi Del Grazia of Pistoja. This is the most remarkable and genuine monument of the old Tuscan dialect, and the perfect character of that idiom appears in it, without the slightest alteration, as it existed before the time of Dante. The preface and notes of the editor are principally intended to show how little known, or rather how entirely unknown, the history of the language of the Italian people was before the discovery of this MS.; 2dly, to determine, at least approximatively, at what time the language of the people began to be generally used in publications and literary works; 3dly, to show in what the peculiar merit of Dante, and his literary contemporaries, consisted, as creators of the Italian language; 4thly, to show the alterations permitted by subsequent writers and copyists of MSS. No more need be said to show the importance of the work to the linguist, the historian and the antiquary.

Mr. Martorano, of Palermo, is publishing a work of Notizie Storiche dei Saraceni Siciliani. The first volume has lately appeared.

Alberto Nota, the dramatist, has published an interesting account of the earthquake which took place in the town and district of San Remo, in the Riviera of Genoa, in May, 1831.

Professor Rosini's new novel, Luisa Strozzi, in four volumes, 8vo. is expected to appear forthwith. The epoch of the story is that of the fall of the Florentine Republic in the sixteenth century. It is embellished with portraits of Savonarola, Michael Angelo, Guicciardini, Cellini, and other characters of the times.

Another Italian historical romance of the middle ages, entitled Ettore Fieramosca, by M. Alzeglio, son-in-law of Manzoni, has just appeared at Milan, in 2 vols. 8vo., with plates from the author's drawings, and is attracting a good deal of attention, probably from the idea of the author having been assisted by his father-in-law.

A new description of Pompeii by Fumagalli, of Milan, from drawings taken in 1824-1829, in sixteen numbers, folio, is announced.

The well known literary Journal, the Antologia of Florence, after twelve years of an honourable existence, was suppressed in April last, by an order from the Tuscan government. An article, in the December number last, on the downfall of Greece under the Roman invasion, with a slight allusion to the Austrian dominion in Lombardy, is said to have been the cause of this determination. The article had passed the ordeal of the censorship, which in Tuscany has been till now comparatively indulgent, and the number in question had freely circulated for more than two months all over Italy, at Milan as well as elsewhere, without attracting any animadversion from the respective authorities, when the journal called La Voce della Verita, published at Modena, and believed to be under high patronage, made a violent attack on the Antologia, on the subject of the said article, and its general tendency.' Soon after this the order for the suppression of the Antologia was issued. This step, which seems out of the general tenor of Tuscan policy, has made a considerable impression on the people of Florence. A subscription has been made to indemnify the proprietor, M. Vieusseux, for the injury he has sustained by this act of the government. The Antologia was one of the two principal Italian literary journals, and was supported by some of the first literary and scientific characters in that country. Its suppression will be felt as a loss. Such is the precarious tenure of literary property in a country subject to the censorship.

Manno, the historian of Sardinia, has recently published at Milan two curi ous little works; the first is entitled "De 'Vizi de 'Letterati," in the contents of which we notice the following heads:-Of literary men too young: Of those who remained always young: Of those who are too old: Of the rash: Of the pedantic, the barren, the flowery, the jocose, the proud, the unjust, the mercenary, &c. We find also chapters on the literati who are exclusive admirers of a single science, on the encyclopedists, on the liberty of language, on the idolatry of language, on the rifacimento of old works, and lastly, on classicism and romanticism. The title of the second is "Della fortuna delle Parole," or on the good and bad luck of particular words, in which he traces how certain words once noble have become vulgar, while vulgar ones have been ́ admitted into good company, words which may be traced to an historical or sacred origin, words which have usurped the place of other, words which are a perpetual lie, &c. The whole is written in a vein of considerable humour.

Mr. Cigogna is publishing at Venice an interesting work, entitled Delle Iscrizioni Veneziane, being a collection of the numerous Epitaphs and Monumental inscriptions on the tombs of distinguished characters existing in the churches of Venice, with copious biographical and critical illustrations. It is in fact a Liber Fastorum of that famous Republic and its fourteen centuries of independence. The Eleventh Number is just published.

SWITZERLAND.

Necrology.-Madame de Montolieu, the authoress of Caroline de Lichtfield, died at her chateau of Bruyer, near Lausanne, on the 28th of December, 1832, after a long and painful illness, in the eighty-first (according to some accounts in the ninety-first) year of her age. She was twice married; first, to M. de

Crousaz; second, to the Baron de Montolieu. The reputation she acquired by her first novel, published in 1781, was sustained by a long series of productions of the same kind, amounting to upwards of a hundred volumes, original and translated; a large proportion of the latter were from the German novelist, Auguste Lafontaine. She was a very successful competitor for the public favour, for which she was indebted to the ease and gracefulness of her style, the purity of her descriptions, her good taste, and finally to that quality which is so deficient in the literature of the present day-her adherence to

nature.

Her son, M. Henri de Crousaz-Mein, who had also been long ill, died the day after his mother, in the same house.

An important work, entitled Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, etc. will commence to be published in livraisons, in September next, by Dr. Louis Agassiz, Professor of Natural History at Neufchatel. It will be completed in five vols. 4to. of letterpress and 250 plates in folio; and, as respects the ver tebrated animals, may be considered as the complement of the Researches of Cuvier on Fossil Bones. It will comprehend a description of 500 extinct species; an exposition of the laws of succession and of the organic developement of fish, during all the changes of the terrestrial globe; a new classification of these animals, expressing their connection with the series of formations; and, lastly, some general geological reflections deduced from the study of these fossil remains.

ORIENTAL LITERATURE.

The French translation of the Laws of Menou from the Sanskrit, by M. Loiseleur de Longchamps, has just been completed in four livraisons. The original Sanskrit text forms a separate volume.

A Dictionary of the Mongol Language, with explanations in Russian and German by Professor Schmidt, of St. Petersburgh, will be published in 1834.

The celebrated linguist, Bopp, has just published the first part of a comparative Grammar of the Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, and German languages, in which he treats of the sounds, the comparison of the roots, and the formation of the case. A second part will complete the work.

A second edition of Jaubert's Turkish Grammar is in the press, with corrections and additions.

in 8vo.,

M. Garcin de Tassy has just published a Supplement to his Hindostanee Grammar.

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